2011

2010

In Partnership with:

Paul Nurse

China – Beijing and Tianjin

In December 2014, Paul Nurse took part in a Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative event in China. He visited Beijing and Tianjin, meeting with researchers from across the region.

You can watch the highlights of his trip here:

His lecture video provides insights into the cell cycle, receiving the Nobel Prize and being a successful researcher:

Speaking in advance of the event, Paul Nurse said

This will be my first Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative event and I am looking forward to the discussions. I sincerely hope that my visit to China inspires the young researchers I will meet – but I have no doubt that I will be inspired by them

Paul Nurse

Paul Nurse is a geneticist and cell biologist who has worked on how the eukaryotic cell cycle is controlled and how cell shape and cell dimensions are determined. His major work has been on the cyclin dependent protein kinases and how they regulate cell reproduction.

He is President of the Royal Society and Director of the Francis Crick Institute in London and has served as Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK and President of Rockefeller University.

He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and has received the Albert Lasker Award and the Royal Society’s Royal and Copley Medals. He was knighted in 1999 and received the Legion d’honneur in 2003.